The first of two talks by J. R. POLE
Fellow of Churchill College and Reader in American History and Government in the University of Cambridge
Dr. Pole considers how the fact and the concept of political revolution have interacted in shaping the history of Europe and America since the late eighteenth century. Our view of this has itself been strikingly reshaped by the major work of the American historian Professor R. R. Palmer. The Ape of the Democratic Revolution, and Dr. Pole makes this book his starting-point.
Second talk: July 13